Category: Short Stories
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COPYRIGHT, 1903, 1904, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE ASSOCIATED SUNDAY MAGAZINES COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1905, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, AND GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY...
2. Part 2He liked that least of all. He had a sudden impulse to pound the door, the man beside him. Yet the next moment he was ashamed of it. He turned around. The others had come forwar...
3. Part 3My second introduction to her came about in this wise. I was staying at the time in Venice--a city in which it has been my good fortune to spend much of my life and in which I w...
4. Part 4She thereupon proceeded to ply me with questions the most diverse, the which for brevity’s sake I forbear to transcribe. Each was more amazing than the last, and when finally I...
5. Part 5Well, she stayed there. Of course there was a tremendous row. Mrs. Lovejoy stormed, and Daphne cried, and Marvin manœuvred rather helplessly between. And the upshot of it was th...
6. Part 6“I suppose she wasn’t very well off,” I began. “None of us were, of course. And I suppose she must have had some German philosophy in her system. Her people came from Halle. So...
7. Part 7I likewise discovered, however, that with the rest of my belongings I seemed to have lost my companions. I had been so diverted, for a time, that it did not occur to me to be un...
8. Part 8_Cy gist Achilles Gvibert de Chevigny, fils de Pierre Gvibert, Escvier, Sievr de Chevigny, Conseiller, Secretair dv Roy, Maison, Covronne deFrance et de Dame Clavde Gviet Gallar...
9. Part 9“Sophie Derwall,” at length demanded the outraged Mrs. Hopp, “how dare you say such monstrous things? Do you mean to tell me--you who pretend to read so much, to care so little...
10. Part 10Shame filled the painter--shame, and a passionate envy. He looked admiringly at the young fisherman stretched out beside him, followed all the lines of the strong bronzed figure...
11. Part 11She looked out of the window again, at the house in which so momentous an event should be taking place. The house gave no hint, however, of being the abode of passion. It stood...
12. Part 12So the Younger stood in the doorway of the Casino terrace and smiled. For while the _Stabilimento_, like all respectable _Stabilimenti_, was rigidly divided into two equal halve...
13. Part 13The Elder put this from him with a twist of head and hand. “Excuse me, _caro mio_, if I seem to allude to personal matters. But you will remember that at Viareggio, that first t...
14. Part 14It is hard to deny the requests of beautiful ladies. The requests of Miss Sanderson were peculiarly impossible, because, in the first place, ladies are not presented at court in...
15. Part 15“Of course, if we had only been buying an emerald, we could have found one quite as good, and for far less in New York; though Peter insists we could not. But then, this was not...
16. Part 16I looked at Chatty, and Chatty looked at me. It was incredible. It was incredible enough that he and I should be there; but a third person, and just on that night! At the moment...
17. Part 17We kept our questions to ourselves, however. We also kept, after that first misadventure, to our part of the house. But I would create an entirely false impression if I seemed t...
18. Part 18The only trouble was that he had never yet encountered “them.” Julia Jenkins, hitherto, had been his sole approach to them; and whatever else Julia might be, she certainly was n...
19. Part 19“Quite so!” agreed the Brazilian. “I have rather a mania for that sort of thing, myself. Wait. Let me show you.” And he went into the inner cabin. When he came back he held up a...
20. Part 20Matthews turned, and saw in the doorway of the terrace a personage who could be none other than his host. In place of the _kola_ of his people this personage wore a great white...
21. Part 21His voice had a curious rumble in the dim stone room. Matthews wondered whether it were because the acoustic properties of a _serdab_ in Dizful differ from those of a galley on...
22. Part 22But what mute inglorious Paderewski of the restricted circle he had moved in for the past months was capable of such parlour tricks as this? Then, suddenly, he saw. He saw, sway...
23. Part 23The moon was but a ghost of itself, and a faint rose was beginning to tinge the pallor of the sky behind the Bakhtiari mountains, when the motor began to miss fire. Gaston, stif...